That is indeed the solution.
A technical solution won’t cut it. Here’s a very convoluted example: the <p> tag allows you to send the text “buy illegal drugs here” to kids!! Omg!!! What to do? Remove the <p> tag? Obviously not. You ban the practice.
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ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 days agoI’m not sure a technical solution is feasible, other than dns-blocking these trackers. I suppose lawmakers need to spring into action to make this shit illegal.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 3 days ago
skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
You could probably set a cap on how many different fingerprinty attributes a script is allowed to grab before requesting permission from the user.